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US-12118302

Regular expression searching

PublishedOctober 15, 2024
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Technical Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for optimizing searches of records including text elements. The methods, systems, and computer program perform operations including receiving a regular expression search query from a client. The operations also include parsing elements of the regular expression search query. The operations further include identifying search mechanisms based on the elements parsed from the search query. In addition, the operations include searching a data set identified by the regular expression search query using the search mechanisms. Further, the operations include returning a search result from the data set to the client based on a result of the searching.

Patent Claims
14 claims

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2. The method of claim 1, wherein parsing the elements of the regular expression search query comprises parsing wildcard elements included in the regular expression search query from required characters included in the regular expression search query.

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3. The method of claim 1, wherein a last search mechanism in the pipeline order of performing the two or more search mechanisms is the regular expression search.

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4. The method of claim 1, wherein searching the data set comprises searching predefined indices corresponding to the elements of the regular expression search query.

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5. The method of claim 1, wherein the data set corresponds to a Domain Name System (DNS) registry.

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6. The method of claim 1, wherein the method is performed by a Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) service.

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7. The method of claim 6, wherein the regular expression search query comprises a Hypertext Transfer Protocol request specifying a domain, the RDAP service, and the regular expression search.

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9. The method of claim 1, wherein searching the data set further comprises providing an output of a first search mechanism as input to a second search mechanism.

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10. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least two or more search mechanisms further comprise at least one of a trigraph searching or an enhanced bit-map matching.

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12. The system of claim 11, wherein parsing the elements of the regular expression search query comprises parsing wildcard elements included in the regular expression search query from required characters included in the regular expression search query.

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13. The system of claim 11, wherein a last search mechanism in the pipeline order of performing the two or more search mechanisms is the regular expression search.

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14. The system of claim 11, wherein searching the data set comprises searching predefined indices corresponding to the elements of the regular expression search query.

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15. The system of claim 11, wherein the data set corresponds to a Domain Name System (DNS) registry.

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16. The system of claim 11, wherein the operations are performed by a Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) service.

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17. The system of claim 16, wherein the regular expression search query comprises a Hypertext Transfer Protocol request specifying a domain, the RDAP service, and the regular expression search.

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Filing Date

October 12, 2017

Publication Date

October 15, 2024

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